I suspect Rices’s standards aren’t the same as 40 years ago or even 10 years ago..
When I was hired, it was harder to get a job than it was to be accepted to the student rolls.
Around 13.5% of the student applications were accepted, whereas about 8% of the employee applicants were actually hired.
But, that was almost 20 years ago.
They’ve added two new residences, and increased the freshman class by at least 1,500 since that time.